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</a></b></font><font size=3>Tuesday, April 06, 2010 <br><br>
</font><font size=4><b>Video shows 'US attack' on Iraqis <br><br>
</b></font><font size=3>One of the internet's biggest sources of
classified government information has released video of what it says is a
US helicopter firing at civilians in Iraq.<br><br>
<a href="http://wikileaks.org/">WikiLeaks, a website that publishes
anonymously sourced documents,</a> released what it called previously
unseen footage on Monday.<br><br>
It said the footage filmed from a helicopter cockpit shows a missile
strike and shooting on a crowded square in a Baghdad neighbourhood in
July 2007.<br><br>
The website said 12 civilians were killed in the attack, including two
journalists, Namir Nour El Deen and Saeed Chmagh, who worked for the
Reuters news agency.<br><br>
The two men appear to survive the first strike and attempt to get away,
but the helicopter returns a second and third time.<br><br>
<b>Witnesses corroborated<br><br>
</b>There was no immediate comment from the US military on the
video.<br><br>
Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane, reporting from Washington, said Pentagon
officials seemed "completely surprised" when informed of the
release of the tape, and appeared not to have heard about the footage
beforehand.<br>
in depth <br><br>
"So far we still haven't gotten [a response]. No response to what's
on the tape and no confirmation that this is in fact a military
tape," she said.<br><br>
But Julian Assange, the editor of
<a href="http://wikileaks.org/">WikiLeaks.org,</a>said there is strong
evidence to suggest that the video is genuine.<br><br>
"There was a <i>Washington Post</i> reporter who was with that US
military unit on the ground on that day," Assange told Al Jazeera,
referring to David Finkel, a journalist who was embedded with the US
military in July 2007.<br><br>
"He wrote a chapter in a book, which was published last year, called
<i>The Good Soldiers,</i> which correlates directly to the material in
that video.<br><br>
"Also, Reuters conducted a number of investigations and interviewed
two ground witnesses at the time.<br><br>
"That story wasn't really taken seriously, [with] nothing to back up
the witnesses, but now we have the video that shows that those witnesses
were correct."<br><br>
<b>'Military whistleblowers'<br><br>
</b><a href="http://www.collateralmurder.com/">WikiLeaks set up a
separate website with detailed information on the video,</a>which it said
it obtained from a number of "military
whistleblowers".<br><br>
"WikiLeaks goes to great lengths to verify the authenticity of the
information it receives," the website read.<br><br>
"We have analyzed the information about this incident from a variety
of source material. We have spoken to witnesses and journalists directly
involved in the incident."<br><br>
In the video, a voice can be heard saying there has been a shooting in
the area. The unidentified person later receives permission to open
fire.<br><br>
Following the shooting, the footage shows troops carrying two injured
children, as another unidentified person asks for permission to take the
wounded out of the area.<br><br>
A voice responds, saying, "Well, it's their fault for bringing their
kids into a battle."<br><br>
<b>Military regret<br><br>
</b>Our correspondent said the military had released a statement at the
time of the attack saying they had positively identified weapons and
militants in the strike.<br><br>
"It's important to point out that at the time of this incident, the
military was very specific," she said.<br><br>
"They said that the children were injured by shrapnel and the people
who were killed were identified positively as militants who had put the
security of Iraq at risk and that they had ... weapons.<br><br>
"The commanders at the time said that they really regretted that
children were wounded in this and said that they had taken every step
possible to make sure that innocent lives were spared."<br><br>
Nabil Nour El Deen, the brother of the Reuters photographer killed in the
shooting, condemned the attack as a "crime" committed by the US
military.<br><br>
"Is this the democracy and freedom that they claim they have brought
to Iraq?<br><br>
"What Namir was doing was a patriotic work. He was trying to cover
the violations of the Americans against the Iraqi people," he told
Al Jazeera.<br><br>
"We demand the international organisations to help us sue those
people responsible for the killings of our sons and our
people."<br><br>
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